Yes, your employment contract has likely a minimum number of hours of work stipulated (otherwise PTO etc becomes hard).
Look, i’m not saying it is a valuable way of looking at productivity at all, but the fraud aspect is reasonably clear.
So if it states 40 hours, you put in 40 hours. If you do nothing during those 40 hours, we can have a moral/ethics discussion about if and how you should change the situation etc, but at that point we’re outside of the fraud scenario in my opinion.
Look, i’m not saying it is a valuable way of looking at productivity at all, but the fraud aspect is reasonably clear.
So if it states 40 hours, you put in 40 hours. If you do nothing during those 40 hours, we can have a moral/ethics discussion about if and how you should change the situation etc, but at that point we’re outside of the fraud scenario in my opinion.